On January 10, 2023, Ukraine will celebrate the 84th anniversary of the creation of the Sumy region. In the context of this event, Anatolii Goncharenko, associate professor of the Department of History of Sumy State University, spoke at the Vidicon TRC. The Sumy historian told the history of the formation of the Sumy region and the main stages of territorial and administrative changes in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century. in Ukraine. A. Honcharenko also emphasized the important mission of historians to preserve the memory of this important page of Ukrainian history.